Meet the Publishing Team

Philip J. Purnell

Director - Research & Publishing Services

Tel: +971 (0)4 422 7043

Mob: +971 50 552 9356

Philip Graduated from the Institute of Psychiatry, London and then went on to hold a research post at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. He then spent several years in the pharmaceutical industry and subsequently moved into the scientific, technical and medical publishing field, joining Thomson Reuters in the year 2000. Philip specialized in research evaluation and has advised universities, government research institutions and funding bodies across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia on strategies to evaluate their research output and performance. He also prioritized hundreds of regional journals for inclusion in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. At knowledge E, Philip’s role includes overseeing editorial selection, production and implementation of publishing industry standards to the KnE Publishing platform.

Mohamad Mostafa

Publishing Editor

Mohamad Mostafa hold a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Minufiya University in Egypt with more than 6 years experience in publishing with Hindawi Publishing Corporation in Cairo, Egypt. His responsibilities included publishing and production operations. In July 2016, he moved to Knowledge E in Dubai, UAE. At Knowledge E, Mohamad's role covers initial content screening and selection, launching new series and journals, editorial processes including plagiarism and ethical standards checking and assessment, materials handling and production processing of both conference proceedings and journal articles, content indexing in the leading abstracting & indexing databases.

Leila Elizabeth Kardan

Publishing Executive

Leila Elizabeth Kardan is the publishing executive at Knowledge E. She serves as key contact person with clients for managing the conference proceedings and journal publication process in the Knowledge E publishing platform. She works closely with the Project manager and technical back end to coordinate various stages of the production. She joined Knowledge E in December 2015 as Publishing Coordinator. She worked as an English Teacher at a public senior high school as part of the Japanese Government’s largest cultural exchange programme for 3 years. She presented workshops for 2 years at the Teaching Skills Development Seminar for ALTs (Assistant Language Teachers) and JTEs (Japanese Teachers of English) in Toyama. She has published multiple lesson plans in an annual lesson compendium aimed at improving Team-Teaching efforts in Toyama as well as writing recipes in the Toyama AJET chapter magazine. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Media from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, UK.

Therese Bill

Office Manager

Therese Bill joined Knowledge E in April 2016 as Office Manager. She has more than five years’ experience in Dubai and has worked in both Latvia and Sweden before moving to the UAE. Therese holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Stockholm School of Business in Sweden as well as degree in real estate. At Knowledge E she is the head of the administrative team. Her duties include, but are not limited to, publishing press releases as well as being in charge of various marketing activities such as managing the corporate social media pages.

Marlu Tampus

IT Support/Web Developer

Marlu Tampus joined Knowledge E in June 2014 as IT Support/Web Developer. He has more than 4 years of experience in the IT industry in the Philippines and in Dubai. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from the University of Cebu – LapuLapu and Mandaue. His roles in KnowledgeE covers developing and maintaining KnE Publishing Platform, KnowledgeE Website and KnE Digital Library Platforms.

Somin Gajjar

Accountant and Financial Controller

Somin Gajjar joined Knowledge E in June 2016, as an Accountant and Financial Controller. He served as a Finance Assistant for 2 years in India with a finance consultancy firm. In 2013, he moved to Dubai and worked as an accountant in a media firm. Somin secured a Master's Degree in Business Management Studies governed by All India Council of Technical Education(AICTE) from Mumbai, India. His expertise in Accounting, Credit control, Financial Modeling/Analysis and Banking.

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Pippa Smart

Publishing Adviser

Pippa is a research communication and publishing consultant and founder of PSP Consulting. She has worked in academic and research publishing for almost 25 years for range of publishers, and in over 25 countries. She provides a variety of consultancy services to publishers and editorial groups, including advising publishers on the development of their publishing programmes, contract negotiation, developing and running training programmes independently and in conjunction with other organisations (mostly on editorial skills, journal business development and copyright), providing industry updates to companies and groups. Pippa also writes a monthly newsletter on the publishing industry for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) which is read by over 1,000 publishers around the world. Pippa is also the Editor-in-Chief of Learned Publishing. Pippa has provided valuable guidance and support to Knowledge E for its KnE Publishing Platform on publication ethics, editorial policies, copyright standards and guidelines.

About us

Knowledge E supports regional research communities to globalise their findings by providing an open access, online platform in line with international publishing standards, indexing scholarly conference proceedings and academic journals. The regional focus enriches the world’s academic literature by sharing best practices that aim to resolve local challenges and adding to the depth of expert contribution to global issues. See knowledgee.com for more information.